Introduction

We provide the pre-built images and also come with a happy Installer. We can use the images and then get the newest Android in Beagleboard or Devkit8000. It would take only few minutes to achieve it. Besides these pre-buit images, we can build from scratch and gain the images too.

Obtain Prebult Images

There are two kinds of pre-built images. One is official released images (stable) and the other one is daily build images (experimental). You can download the pre-built images from 0xlab download website and then follow the instructions to install into Beagleboard/Devkit8000 environment.

NOTE: for newer Beagleboard (rev C4), you need to rename "uImage.bin" to uImage (on the SD card) for the default bootloader to pick it up. (naming problem)

Installation

Make sure that Beagleboard hardware is properly set up first. Check wiki page hardware_beagleboard in advance. You can either use automated approach from Installer (for dummies)or go through the details (for geeks).

for dummies

0xdroid release 0x4~0x5

Beagle board

• Format the first partition over than 100MB with VFAT on a SD card.
• Download the release archive beagle-eclair-0x?.zip
• unzip the archive into SD card first partition
• Plug the SD card in beagleboard SD slot and restart the beagleboard
• Wait for UI installer over
• Unplug the beagleboard and restart it
• Enjoy it

Devkit8000

The stock bootloader uses a old machine id that does not match upstream registry. So new users have to reflash a newer bootloader. We provide some key events for Android UI. Also, make sure what size of panel you are using ! You probably need to edit install.conf file.

• Prepare the SD card as described above. Then unzip the release image onto the VFAT partition.

cd /media/sdb1
unzip ~/devkit8k-eclair-0x?.zip

• Download the new bootloader to the same partition.
• Edit install.conf, uncomment the U_BOOT_IMAGE line.
• Edit install.conf, choose the correct size of panel. (7 inch or 4.3 inch)
• Plug the SD card in Devkit8000 SD slot and restart it.
• Enter the u-boot prompt, use the following command the chainload the new bootloader.

mmcinit;mmc init
fatload mmc 0 80300000 flash-uboot.bin
go 80300000

• Then use the new bootloader to load installer

boot

• Wait until all the leds turned on, then the installation is finished.
• Remove the SD card and reboot.

NOTE: These steps only have to do once. After the bootloader is updated, the subsequence re-install will be as simple as beagleboard.

0xdroid release 0x1~0x3

Beagle board

• Format the first partition over than 100MB with VFAT on a SD card.
• Download the installer uImage.bin
• Download 0xkernel-beagle.bin and android-beagle.ubi release folder
• Copy above three files into the first partition of SD/MMC card
• Plug the SD card in Beagle board SD slot and restart the Beagleboard
• Wait for UI installer over. The installer would perform NAND flashing and u-boot environment setup.
• Unplug SD card from the Beagleboard and reboot
• Enjoy!

Format SD card instructions under GNU/Linux

• insert the SD card, wait it been detected, say /dev/mmcblk0
• It may be different with different SD device, you can check it via "dmesg")

dmesg | tail

You should see something like -

scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Multi    Flash Reader     1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 3862528 512-byte logical blocks: (1.97 GB/1.84 GiB)
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb: sdb1 sdb2

If you are using the built-in SD/MMC slot, the device name would be /dev/mmcblk?

• If any partition been mounted automatically, please umount.
• According to the above device name about SD/MMC, create and format the partitions:

sudo fdisk /dev/mmcblk0

or

sudo fdisk /dev/sdb

• press "d" delete the origin partitions
• press "n" creating new partition, select partition 1, and give over 100MB to it
• press "t" and select partition 1. Change the partition label to "b" (W95 FAT32)
• creating other partitions as you wish (optional)
• press "p" to confirm the partitions. The reference output:

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdd: 1977 MB, 1977614336 bytes
64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 957 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 = 2064384 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdd1            1          30       60448+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sdd2           31         957     1868832   83  Linux

• press "wq" write back and quit fdisk

• Format the partition for use:

sudo mkfs.vfat -n DISK_INSTALLER /dev/mmcblk0p1

or

sudo mkfs.vfat -n DISK_INSTALLER /dev/sdb1

for geeks

Check wiki page boot_nand as reference.